The final numbers of the Richmond, Indiana, 1922 campaign?

As reported below in the Palladium-Item. Mon, May 29, 1922 ·Page 1

GIVE SUNDAY $10,718 ON FINAL NIGHT

“Fine, That’s Dandy, You Did Great” Evangelist Declares as Total Amount Is Read by Chairman.

5,007 ARE CONVERTED

REVIVAL DATA

Sunday’s offering $10,718.04

Campaign expenses $17,000.00

Trail Hitters 5,876

Attendance 247,250

Tabernacle sermons 75

Total sermons 76

Prayer meetings 352

Richmond presented Billy Sunday with $10,718.04 as a result of the final collections on Sunday, and the donations were received during the week from persons who did not expect to be in Richmond on Sunday.

“Fine, that’s dandy, you did great,” Sunday said as the total amount was read by Ed Wilson, treasurer of the campaign, who handed a draft for that amount to Mr. Sunday.

“I saw more tears tonight than I ever seen in any town for a long time, and if we could just continue for two weeks more we could just more than make things hum” Sunday said.

On the last Sunday in Charleston, the collections were announced as $34,658.

“The papers in this town have done better in covering this campaign from every angle than any other city I have been in.” – Billy Sunday

Thanks Local People

Thanks for the services of the men and women who had taken part in the campaign, were given before and after the sermon.

“If the other people had stood behind the campaign here with the enthusiasm and loyalty that the newspapers have shown and the committees have taken their part, the campaign here would have been a big success,” Rev. E. Howard Brown, pastor of the East Main Street Friends meetings, said in asking for the envelopes.

“I have envelopes here showing that most of the different churches did not get in their reports, and we have a number of men and women who came forward and signed cards saying that they accepted Jesus as their personal savior, and the denominations probably have their records.”

Creates Big Racquet

Will Romey, junior, on behalf of the boys who had been singing in the choir, presented Mr. Sunday with a record the chorus leader with a record of the boys’ singing, and the audience applauded.

Before the sermon all of the members of the party were called to the platform to say goodbye to the audience. Only Albert Peterson was absent, he having left last Wednesday to attend the funeral of his grandmother at Ottumwa, Iowa. “Pete’s all right, pure gold,” Sunday declared.

As the members of the party were leaving the platform Mrs. Sunday placed her hand on Mr. Sunday’s shoulder, and said, “If you see the members of the party are pure gold too, from here down through the list.”

The audience applauded.

Thanks Newspapers

Mr. Sunday said, “The papers in this town have done better in covering this campaign from every angle than any other city I have been in.”

He continued, “If it hadn’t been for the automobiles that they loaned to the party during the campaign, Mrs. Asher, George Sunday, and Bob Matthews, sang their final punctuating melodies, and the audience joined in singing the last hymn of the other musical number of greatest interest was Mr. Brown’s singing of “I Am Praying for You.”

The chorus sang the first and second phrases while the big, long floor of the tabernacle sang the second and last phrases. The music that echoed down the longer stretches of the tabernacle, was like a choir in a huge cathedral, and the music seemed to chance to carry through long rows of columns.